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Abandon Every Hope: A Discussion with Hayley Singer
In Spring 2023, Australian Hayley Singer, a 2020 CAF grantee, published Abandon Every Hope: Essays for…
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Sondra Jackson-Opoku: Manatees and Marginalized Communities
Sandra Jackson-Opoku received a grant from the Culture & Animals Foundation to research and write Ellie Mac, Please Come Back!—a children’s book on saving the manatees. Tymesha-Elizabeth…
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Entangled: Multispecies Lives, Justice, and Narratives
Gauri Kasarla, a 2023 Navab Fellow at Columbia University, interviews 2020 CAF grantee Nathaniel Otjen on his research project and book, “Entangled Lives: Multispecies Selves, Justice, and…
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The Politics of Eating Animals in India
CAF’s 2023 Navab Fellow Gauri Kasarla is an undergraduate student at Columbia University studying Art History and Visual Art. As an American with roots in Andhra Pradesh in…
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Creating Antispeciesist Video Essays: An Interview with Just Wondering . . .
Gauri Kasarla is a 2023 CAF Navab Fellow from Columbia University studying Art History and Visual Art. She spoke with 2020 CAF grantees Just Wondering…
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Wolves, Wildness, and the American Imagination: Patrick Fuery and Lauren Strohacker in Conversation
In this 30-minute video, CAF grantees cultural critic Patrick Fuery (2021) and ecopolitical artist Lauren Strohacker (2022) explore the psychological and physical space occupied by wolves…
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Jane O’Hara on the State of the Union for Animals
Jane O’Hara, a 2017 CAF grantee, recently completed her monumental State of the Union, a series of fifty portraits of depicting the situation for animals throughout the United…
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Protecting the Vultures of Nepal: An Interview with Namita Kandel
Gauri Kasarla is a 2023 Navab Fellow from Columbia University studying Art History and Visual Art. She spoke with 2023 CAF grantee Namita Kandel of The Jane Goodall…
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Isa Leshko Is the 2023 Nancy Regan Arts Prize Awardee
CAF’s Board is delighted to announce that Isa Leshko has been chosen as the recipient of the 2023 Nancy Regan Arts…
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Remembering Siobhan O’Sullivan
Along with many, the Culture & Animals Foundation mourns the passing of Siobhan O’Sullivan, founder of the wonderful podcast Knowing Animals, for which she received a…
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Street Artist and CAF Grantee Praxis vgz Hosts Pop-Up Exhibition
Come see CAF grantee Praxis vgz‘s one-night-only pop up show of his street art in Manhattan on May 26th. This month, Praxis has been calling…
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CAF Announces Its 2023 Grants
We at the Culture & Animals Foundation are delighted to announce our 2023 grantees. The image represents only a few of the folks who’ve received a grant for their…
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Meet CAF Grantees Linda Ncube and Alfred Sihwa
In 2022, CAF grantee Jo-Anne McArthur, animal photojournalist and founder of We Animals Media, met with CAF grantees Linda…
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Filmmaker Jusep Moreno on When Pigs Escape
When Pigs Escape, a documentary film by Jusep Moreno, a 2022 CAF grantee, will be screened at locations across the U.K. on Saturday, November 19th. A pre-recorded Q&A will…
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Individualism, Community, and Landscape at VINE Sanctuary
In 2022, the Culture & Animals Foundation provided a grant to VINE Sanctuary in Vermont to engage a scholar as an intern. Rebecca Shen, who is undertafshenking…
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Read Our Latest Newsletter
Our October 2022 newsletter is out, full of information. We have updates on the extraordinary work of our grantees; Kat Poje’s article on researching the animal advocacy…
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Meet 2013 CAF Grantee Claude Jones (Video)
New Zealand–born collagist and ceramist, and 2013 CAF grantee, Claude Jones talks with CAF Navab Fellow Victoria Reshetnikov about how she communicates her veganism through art,…
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Meet CAF 2022 Grantee Suzy González (Video)
In a video interview, Suzy González—Texas-based artist, curator, writer, and zinester, and 2022 CAF grantee—talks with CAF Navab Fellow Victoria Reshetnikov about her artistic…
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2022 Grantees Announced
We have chosen 16 applicants from ten countries, working on diverse and exciting projects, for this year’s grantees. You can read about them and their projects
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The Year in Review: 2021
In October 2021, CAF mourned the death of our co-founder Nancy Regan, who had done so much for CAF over its 35-year history. On her departure from the…
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Marisa Miller Wolfson: Ten Years of Vegucation
September 10, 2021 saw the tenth anniversary of the release of the documentary film Vegucated—offering an occasion to talk to its creator Marisa…
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From Spirits to Flesh: An Interview with Liz Marshall
In August 2021, CAF associate and Columbia University Navab Fellow Mary Qiu interviewed acclaimed filmmaker and 2011 grantee Liz Marshall on her inspirations,…
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A Vision Beyond Hope: Our Hen House
In August 2021, CAF associate and Columbia University Navab Fellow Mary Qiu interviewed via Zoom Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, the founders of the podcast
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Gal Nissim Takes Your Time
When you interact with “ScienArtist” Gal Nissim’s works, whether by listening to her Synanthrope Preserve rat tour, “The First to Cross,” in Tompkins…
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Donald Vincent Is Working on Finding the New Normal
As an English professor, freelance marketer, and copywriter, and as he works on rap and poetry projects or the 2020 Compassion Arts Festival, 2018 grantee
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Colleen Plumb Constantly Discovers
When in 2009 Colleen Plumb stood outside Chicago’s United Center, waiting for the elephants to come out, she didn’t know what to expect. All she knew at that…
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Yuan-Chih Sets the Stage
Whereas gradual progress is occurring toward legal and other rights for animals across the West, the same cannot be said in East Asia. Yuan-Chih Lung…
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The City and the Animal: An Interview with Ayten Alkan
Ayten Alkan received a CAF grant in 2017 to continue her academic research into stray animals and the city.
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Bearing Witness to the Slaughtering of Pigs
Two-time CAF grantees (2018-19), Amy Jones and Paul Healey received a joint grant to curate a digital free-to-use images of animals while traveling with the…
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Linda Brant—Monument for the Unmourned
On May 18, 2019, artist Linda Brant, unveiled a monument dedicated to farmed animals at the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale,…
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Isa Leshko’s Allowed to Grow Old
Isa Leshko is an American fine art photographer whose work focuses on animal rights, mortality, and aging. Her collection Allowed to…
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Moving Animals Launches Website
Paul Healey and Amy Jones received a joint grant from Culture & Animals Foundation in 2018 to curate an archive of free-to-use images of animals,…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Steve Baker: After the Ark
Steve Baker is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central Lancashire in England. Since the 1990s, he’s worked as an artist and academic…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Carol J. Adams: Following the Thread
Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books on the intersections between meat eating and misogyny, including the pioneering and deeply influential The Sexual Politics of Meat: A…
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Spreading the Culture of Animals and Animal Culture
Patricia Denys and Mary Holmes talk about their new online magazine The global mainstream media does not generally cover the most critical topics concerning animal advocacy.
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The Year in Review: 2018
CAF had a busy year in 2018. We welcomed social media expert Karen Bowman to our team to manage our Facebook,
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Tree Time: An Interview with Interdisciplinary Artist Lisa Hirmer
Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Guelph, Ontario, whose practice spans visual media, social practice, performance, art-based research and occasionally writing. She is primarily…
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Donald Vincent & Jane O’Hara on Vegan Paradise
Culture and Animals Foundation 2018 grantee Donald Vincent a.k.a. Mr. Hip is a spoken word poet and hip-hop musician based in Los Angeles. He began recording…
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The Year in Review: 2017
CAF’s year began sadly, with the death in February of Tom Regan, our co-founder, at the age of 78. The tributes were many and well-deserved. Among them, were Robert…
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